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Jersey Number 2
Dillon Kark
- Position:
- INF
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- White Lake, Mich.
- High School:
- Orchard Lake St. Mary’s
Bio
CAREER NOTES: Garnered College Sports Communicators Third-Team Academic All-America® accolades ... Named Big Ten Sportsmanship Award recipient as a senior in 2024 ... A four-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten honoree ... Earned the Scholar-Athlete Award at the Spartan Academic Excellence Gala for highest GPA on team in 2024.
2024 (SENIOR): Collected College Sports Communicators Third-Team Academic All-America® accolades ... Recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award ... Earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Also the recipient of the Scholar-Athlete Award at the Spartan Academic Excellence Gala for highest GPA on team ... Collected the Danny Litwhiler Defensive Player of the Year MSU Team Award ... Tied for seventh in the B1G overall in doubles (17), joined by teammate Jack Frank ... Also joined by Frank and teammate Randy Seymour as the only three Spartans to start and play in all 51 games ... Led MSU in RBI (42), while sharing the team lead with Frank for doubles (17), in addition to second in hits (71), tied for second in triples (1), third in slugging percentage (.466), fourth in runs scored (38), tied for fourth in home runs (4) and fifth in average (.324) ... The 17 doubles are tied for No. 14 on MSU’s single-season doubles list ... Posted 20 games with multiple hits, highlighted by season-high four knocks twice, first vs. Western Michigan (March 2), and again at Minnesota (May 10) ... Logged career-long 14-game hitting streak (Feb. 23-March 22), including multiple hits in six of those 14 games ... Registered multi-RBI in eight games, highlighted by career-high tying and sharing top honors on the team with five ribbies in two different games, vs. Western Michigan (March 2), going 4-for-4 with a double and three-run HR, adding RBI single and a sac fly, with two runs scored ... Also had five RBI vs. Ohio State (April 27), going 2-for-6 with a three-run HR in second inning and a two-run single in sixth that gave the Spartans the lead for good in a 17-12 slugfest Victory for MSU ... Added an eight-game hit streak (April 13-27), which came shortly after a five-game hit streak (March 31-April 9), for a spurt of at least one hit in 13 of 14 games ... Had at least one hit in 41 of the 51 games, only went hitless in 10 games ... While manning the hot corner in all 51 starts, made 84 assists with 43 putouts and was part of 10 double plays, including several leather-flashing plays and frozen rope throws.
2023 (JUNIOR): Earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Played in 50 games, making 48 starts, with all 48 starting coming at third base ... Led MSU and ranked third in the B1G in sacrifice bunts (8), while adding two sac flies, to lead MSU with 10 total sacrifices ... Posted a .275 average, a .450 slugging percentage and .351 on-base percentage ... Logged 47 hits, tallying six doubles, three triples and six home runs ... Ranked tied for fourth on the team with three triples and tied for fifth on team with six HR ... Also tied for third in hit by pitch (9) ... In the field, ranked third on the team in assists (56) and fourth in fielding double plays (5) ... Tied for seventh on the team with 11 multiple hit games, led by season-high four-hit outing vs. Ohio State (April 8), with a single, double and home run ... Added four different games with three hits and six games with two hits ... Also tied for seventh on team with seven multiple RBI games, sharing the team-high with five RBI, which came vs. Northwestern (April 30), going 3-for-3 by knocking a three-run home run and two triples, one of them a two-run three-bagger ... Also added one four-ribbie game, going 4-for-5 vs. Ohio State (April 8) with an RBI single, a two-run HR and an RBI double ... Tallied one three RBI game, in the season-opener vs. Michigan (Feb. 17) on a three-run home run, and four games with two RBI ... Knocked a walk-off inside-the-park home run to complete the Spartans’ comeback in a 6-5 Victory for MSU over Western Carolina (March 10) at MSU’s home-away-from-home, Fluor Field, home of the Greenville Drive, as Michigan State trailed 5-3 after seven innings, but the Spartans plated two runs in the eighth before Kark’s heroics to lead off the ninth ... Posted a season-long seven-game hitting streak (Feb. 24-March 6), in addition to four different three-game hitting streaks, finishing the season with at least one hit in 30 of the 50 games played ... In the field, tallied season-high four putouts in game vs. Arizona (Feb. 19), part of 11 games with multiple putouts.
2022 (SOPHOMORE): Garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten recognition ... Played in 46 games, making 45 starts, with 44 coming at third base and one at DH ... Hit .233 in 163 ABs with 38 hits, three doubles and three home runs, drawing 12 walks and adding two stolen bases ... Led team with four sacrifice bunts ... Posted an 11-game hitting streak (April 9-24) ... Logged 11 multiple hit games, all with two hits, with five of those two-hit contests coming during the 11-game hit streak and coming during a seven-game stretch ... Recorded four multi-RBI games, all with two in each outing, highlighted by two in each game of a doubleheader at Ohio State (April 10), part of going 5-for-10 with a double and home run in the three-game series, hitting a no-doubter two-run home run in game two of the twinbill, after a two-hit, two-RBI outing in the first game ... Hit first HR on a solo shot at UNLV (Feb. 20) for second ribbie of day ... Crushed a walk-off home run in the Spartans’ home opener for a 4-3 Victory for MSU over Houston Baptist (March 18) ... Also had a two-hit, two-RBI game vs. Illinois (March 27) with a two-run single to open the Spartan scoring in the 5-3 Victory for MSU ... In the field, made 66 assists with five putouts and was part of eight double plays.
2021 (SOPHOMORE): Earned Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Played in 27 games, making 12 starts, all at third base ... Hit .216 (8-for-37) with two doubles and one home run, knocking nine RBI and drawing two walks ... Had lone multi-hit outing with 2-for-4 outing at Penn State (May 2) ... Belted first home run of Spartan career with a three-run shot to left field in second inning at Ohio State (May 14) ... Had season-long four-game hitting streak (April 25-May 2), including going 1-for-4 with an RBI and run scored at Penn State (May 1) ... Added a three-game hit streak (May 14-28), including back-to-back outings with a double, knocking first at Ohio State (May 15), then vs. Iowa (May 28) ... In the field, may five putouts and tallied 19 assists, and was part of three double plays.
2020 (FRESHMAN): Made first eight starts of season before suffering season-ending injury and missing remainder of the shortened-season ... Notched a .240 average (6-for-25) with a .345 on-base percentage, adding two walks, two hit-by-pitch, two sacrifice bunts and a stolen base ... The two sac bunts led team and tied for second in the Big Ten ... In the field, started as shortstop all eight games, making six putouts and 18 assists ... Swatted half of season total of hits by going 3-for-5 with a double and RBI in Spartan debut in season-opener vs. Morehead State (Feb. 14) ... Added hit and RBI next day vs. Morehead State (Feb. 15).
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterwinner at Orchard Lake St. Mary's High School for head coach Matt Petry . . . A two-time All-League and All-District award honoree, as well as earning All-Catholic High School League honors as a sophomore and All-State accolades as a junior . . . Hit .396, with six HR and 36 RBI with a .583 on base percentage as a junior, adding a .952 fielding percentage for the season, in guiding OLSM to the state semifinals before losing to eventual state champion . . . A three-time team captain . . . Rated as the No. 1 shortstop and No. 4 overall player in Michigan by Prep Baseball Report ... Rated as the No. 62 shortstop and No. 351 overall player in the country by PBR . . . Played summer league for Motor City Baseball Club . . . Also played football at OLSM, helping the Eaglets to the state title as a freshman, playing quarterback and safety . . . Picked the Spartans over Michigan, Penn State, Wake Forest, Western Michigan and Central Michigan.
PERSONAL: Son of Meredith and Fred Kark . . . Sister, Delaney Kark is on the MSU Cheerleader team . . . Majoring in communication at MSU, with future aspirations of working in professional baseball when his playing career is complete.
2024 (SENIOR): Collected College Sports Communicators Third-Team Academic All-America® accolades ... Recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award ... Earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Also the recipient of the Scholar-Athlete Award at the Spartan Academic Excellence Gala for highest GPA on team ... Collected the Danny Litwhiler Defensive Player of the Year MSU Team Award ... Tied for seventh in the B1G overall in doubles (17), joined by teammate Jack Frank ... Also joined by Frank and teammate Randy Seymour as the only three Spartans to start and play in all 51 games ... Led MSU in RBI (42), while sharing the team lead with Frank for doubles (17), in addition to second in hits (71), tied for second in triples (1), third in slugging percentage (.466), fourth in runs scored (38), tied for fourth in home runs (4) and fifth in average (.324) ... The 17 doubles are tied for No. 14 on MSU’s single-season doubles list ... Posted 20 games with multiple hits, highlighted by season-high four knocks twice, first vs. Western Michigan (March 2), and again at Minnesota (May 10) ... Logged career-long 14-game hitting streak (Feb. 23-March 22), including multiple hits in six of those 14 games ... Registered multi-RBI in eight games, highlighted by career-high tying and sharing top honors on the team with five ribbies in two different games, vs. Western Michigan (March 2), going 4-for-4 with a double and three-run HR, adding RBI single and a sac fly, with two runs scored ... Also had five RBI vs. Ohio State (April 27), going 2-for-6 with a three-run HR in second inning and a two-run single in sixth that gave the Spartans the lead for good in a 17-12 slugfest Victory for MSU ... Added an eight-game hit streak (April 13-27), which came shortly after a five-game hit streak (March 31-April 9), for a spurt of at least one hit in 13 of 14 games ... Had at least one hit in 41 of the 51 games, only went hitless in 10 games ... While manning the hot corner in all 51 starts, made 84 assists with 43 putouts and was part of 10 double plays, including several leather-flashing plays and frozen rope throws.
2023 (JUNIOR): Earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Played in 50 games, making 48 starts, with all 48 starting coming at third base ... Led MSU and ranked third in the B1G in sacrifice bunts (8), while adding two sac flies, to lead MSU with 10 total sacrifices ... Posted a .275 average, a .450 slugging percentage and .351 on-base percentage ... Logged 47 hits, tallying six doubles, three triples and six home runs ... Ranked tied for fourth on the team with three triples and tied for fifth on team with six HR ... Also tied for third in hit by pitch (9) ... In the field, ranked third on the team in assists (56) and fourth in fielding double plays (5) ... Tied for seventh on the team with 11 multiple hit games, led by season-high four-hit outing vs. Ohio State (April 8), with a single, double and home run ... Added four different games with three hits and six games with two hits ... Also tied for seventh on team with seven multiple RBI games, sharing the team-high with five RBI, which came vs. Northwestern (April 30), going 3-for-3 by knocking a three-run home run and two triples, one of them a two-run three-bagger ... Also added one four-ribbie game, going 4-for-5 vs. Ohio State (April 8) with an RBI single, a two-run HR and an RBI double ... Tallied one three RBI game, in the season-opener vs. Michigan (Feb. 17) on a three-run home run, and four games with two RBI ... Knocked a walk-off inside-the-park home run to complete the Spartans’ comeback in a 6-5 Victory for MSU over Western Carolina (March 10) at MSU’s home-away-from-home, Fluor Field, home of the Greenville Drive, as Michigan State trailed 5-3 after seven innings, but the Spartans plated two runs in the eighth before Kark’s heroics to lead off the ninth ... Posted a season-long seven-game hitting streak (Feb. 24-March 6), in addition to four different three-game hitting streaks, finishing the season with at least one hit in 30 of the 50 games played ... In the field, tallied season-high four putouts in game vs. Arizona (Feb. 19), part of 11 games with multiple putouts.
2022 (SOPHOMORE): Garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten recognition ... Played in 46 games, making 45 starts, with 44 coming at third base and one at DH ... Hit .233 in 163 ABs with 38 hits, three doubles and three home runs, drawing 12 walks and adding two stolen bases ... Led team with four sacrifice bunts ... Posted an 11-game hitting streak (April 9-24) ... Logged 11 multiple hit games, all with two hits, with five of those two-hit contests coming during the 11-game hit streak and coming during a seven-game stretch ... Recorded four multi-RBI games, all with two in each outing, highlighted by two in each game of a doubleheader at Ohio State (April 10), part of going 5-for-10 with a double and home run in the three-game series, hitting a no-doubter two-run home run in game two of the twinbill, after a two-hit, two-RBI outing in the first game ... Hit first HR on a solo shot at UNLV (Feb. 20) for second ribbie of day ... Crushed a walk-off home run in the Spartans’ home opener for a 4-3 Victory for MSU over Houston Baptist (March 18) ... Also had a two-hit, two-RBI game vs. Illinois (March 27) with a two-run single to open the Spartan scoring in the 5-3 Victory for MSU ... In the field, made 66 assists with five putouts and was part of eight double plays.
2021 (SOPHOMORE): Earned Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades ... Played in 27 games, making 12 starts, all at third base ... Hit .216 (8-for-37) with two doubles and one home run, knocking nine RBI and drawing two walks ... Had lone multi-hit outing with 2-for-4 outing at Penn State (May 2) ... Belted first home run of Spartan career with a three-run shot to left field in second inning at Ohio State (May 14) ... Had season-long four-game hitting streak (April 25-May 2), including going 1-for-4 with an RBI and run scored at Penn State (May 1) ... Added a three-game hit streak (May 14-28), including back-to-back outings with a double, knocking first at Ohio State (May 15), then vs. Iowa (May 28) ... In the field, may five putouts and tallied 19 assists, and was part of three double plays.
2020 (FRESHMAN): Made first eight starts of season before suffering season-ending injury and missing remainder of the shortened-season ... Notched a .240 average (6-for-25) with a .345 on-base percentage, adding two walks, two hit-by-pitch, two sacrifice bunts and a stolen base ... The two sac bunts led team and tied for second in the Big Ten ... In the field, started as shortstop all eight games, making six putouts and 18 assists ... Swatted half of season total of hits by going 3-for-5 with a double and RBI in Spartan debut in season-opener vs. Morehead State (Feb. 14) ... Added hit and RBI next day vs. Morehead State (Feb. 15).
HIGH SCHOOL: A four-year letterwinner at Orchard Lake St. Mary's High School for head coach Matt Petry . . . A two-time All-League and All-District award honoree, as well as earning All-Catholic High School League honors as a sophomore and All-State accolades as a junior . . . Hit .396, with six HR and 36 RBI with a .583 on base percentage as a junior, adding a .952 fielding percentage for the season, in guiding OLSM to the state semifinals before losing to eventual state champion . . . A three-time team captain . . . Rated as the No. 1 shortstop and No. 4 overall player in Michigan by Prep Baseball Report ... Rated as the No. 62 shortstop and No. 351 overall player in the country by PBR . . . Played summer league for Motor City Baseball Club . . . Also played football at OLSM, helping the Eaglets to the state title as a freshman, playing quarterback and safety . . . Picked the Spartans over Michigan, Penn State, Wake Forest, Western Michigan and Central Michigan.
PERSONAL: Son of Meredith and Fred Kark . . . Sister, Delaney Kark is on the MSU Cheerleader team . . . Majoring in communication at MSU, with future aspirations of working in professional baseball when his playing career is complete.
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